Precious: Pushing The Book
“The movie has given the book a whole new life,” the author of the 1996 novel, “Push,” told Bob Minzesheimer of USA Today.
Known simply as Sapphire, the author’s book about an illiterate and seriously overweight 16-year-old girl is set in Harlem in 1987. It was critically acclaimed and a modest bestseller when it was published [...]